Movers & Shakers
Chicago TV reporter Ben Bradley lowers the asking price of his 5BR, single-family house in Chicago's Lake View neighborhood to $1.299M
By Bob Goldsborough at 18 March, 2010, 2:26 pm
Check out Bob’s weekly column in this coming Sunday’s Chicago Tribune (available online now), in which he breaks the story of Chicago TV reporter Ben Bradley cutting the asking price of his five-bedroom, 2,898-square-foot house in Chicago’s Lake View neighborhood from $1,350,000 to $1,299,000. Also featured: Bob writes about former Oprah Winfrey attorney, agent and [...]
Read More >>White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel rents out his house in Chicago for $4,995/mo; also, Nancy Hughes, the widow of film director John Hughes, pays $5.2M for a mansion in Lake Forest, IL
By Bob Goldsborough at 18 November, 2009, 7:54 pm
Check out Bob’s weekly column from this coming Sunday’s Chicago Tribune — already posted online now — about White House Chief of Staff and Chicago native Rahm Emanuel, who has rented out his house in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood for one year for $4,995 per month. Also featured: Nancy Hughes, the widow of iconic 1980s film [...]
Read More >>Former US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales lists his 2,604-square-foot home in McLean, VA for $1.075M
By Bob Goldsborough at 7 November, 2009, 7:54 pm
Former United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has placed his five-bedroom, brick Colonial-style house in McLean, Va. on the market for $1,075,000. Now teaching at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Tex., Gonzales, 54, was the U.S.’ Attorney General from 2005 until 2007 and prior to that was President George W. Bush’s White House Counsel. The [...]
Read More >>Chewing-gum heir and Wm. Wrigley, Jr. Co. Chairman Bill Wrigley, Jr. lists Chicago penthouse for $14M and also just officially listed his Lake Forest, IL mansion for $14.5M; in April, he paid $11M for a mansion in North Palm Beach, FL and paid $11.53M in May for land in Aspen, CO
By Bob Goldsborough at 6 November, 2009, 6:55 pm
Check out Bob’s column (already available online) from this coming Sunday’s Chicago Tribune, breaking the story that chewing-gum heir and Wm. Wrigley, Jr. Co. Chairman Bill Wrigley, Jr. just placed his unfinished Chicago penthouse on the market for $14,000,000, making it Chicago’s highest-priced residential listing. Wrigley also just officially placed his mansion in Lake Forest, [...]
Read More >>Rolling Stone publisher and founder Jann Wenner reportedly pays $11.9M for a waterfront home on Old Montauk Highway in Montauk, NY, on Long Island's South Fork
By Bob Goldsborough at 25 October, 2009, 7:41 pm
Rolling Stone founder and publisher Jann Wenner and his partner Matt Nye reportedly have paid $11.9 million for a three-story, waterfront house on Old Montauk Highway in Montauk, N.Y., on Long Island’s South Fork. The New York Post’s Jennifer Gould Keil broke the story on Thursday of Wenner’s purchase of the eight-bedroom, 6,300-square-foot house, which [...]
Read More >>Buyer of Bernie Madoff's Montauk, NY beach house revealed: real-estate mogul Steven Roth, who paid $9.41 million for the 3,014-square-foot beachfront house
By Bob Goldsborough at 24 October, 2009, 9:26 pm
The buyer of disgraced financier Bernie Madoff’s four-bedroom beach house in Montauk, N.Y. has been revealed, and it’s real-estate mogul Steven Roth, who paid $9.41 million for Madoff’s scruffy property. The Wall Street Journal’s “Private Properties” column on Friday broke the story of the identity of the buyer, plus what he paid for the 1.2-acre [...]
Read More >>Russian financier Andrei Vavilov sells duplex penthouse in the Plaza in Manhattan for $8.4M, closing the book on his misadventures in high-end New York City real estate
By Bob Goldsborough at 6 October, 2009, 12:07 pm
Russian financier/oligarch Andrei Vavilov has unloaded his 20th-floor, duplex penthouse in the Plaza in Manhattan for $8,400,000, bringing to an end a weird journey for Vavilov that began with word last year that he was to pay a total of $53,500,000 for both a triplex penthouse and a duplex penthouse in the Plaza. The New [...]
Read More >>Bernie Madoff's four-bedroom, Long Island beach house to be put up on the market this week
By Bob Goldsborough at 1 September, 2009, 1:24 pm
Imprisoned and disgraced financier/Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff’s four-bedroom, 3,014-square-foot beach house on Long Island is set to be put up on the market this week by the U.S. Marshals service, which seized the property from Madoff on July 1. The news is all over the Internet today, so we know we’re not exactly sharing “new [...]
Read More >>Actress Milla Jovovich sells her four-bedroom, 3,582-square-foot house in Beverly Hills, CA for $2.75M
By Bob Goldsborough at 26 August, 2009, 11:53 am
Actress and model Milla Jovovich, who wed director Paul W.S. Anderson over the weekend, has sold a four-bedroom, 3,582-square-foot house in Beverly Hills, Calif. for $2,750,000. In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on Jovovich’s recent sale of her French Country-style house at 9712 Heather Road in Beverly Hills (well, technically in the [...]
Read More >>U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan quietly sells his house in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood for $525K; Chicago sportscaster Steve Kashul lists his house in Naperville, Ill. for $524,900
By Bob Goldsborough at 22 August, 2009, 9:48 am
Check out Bob’s weekly column in Sunday’s Chicago Tribune about United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan selling his townhome in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood (near President Obama’s house) for $525,000. Also featured: Chicago-area sportscaster Steve Kashul, who has his house in Naperville, Ill. on the market for $524,900.
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